Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.